Slide loop



y 1944. G. H. ELwELL 2,3545306 SLIDE LOOP Filed Aug. 9, 1943 INVEA/TOR.

Patented July 25, 1944 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SLIDE LOOP George Henry Elwell, New Haven, Conn, assignor to Eastern Tool and Manufacturing Company, Bloomfield, N. J a corporation Application August 9, 1943, Serial No. 497,909

3 Claims.

This invention relates to slide loops, the same being a structural combination of a slide and a button loop for use upon straps of overalls and the like.

With reference to the accompanying drawing, the figure 1' is an upright face view of the improved slide loop; the Figure 2 is a side view of the slide loop, illustrating a strap threaded therein; and the Figure 3 is a sheet-stock detail illustrated in perspective.

With reference more particularly to the accompanying drawing, the numeral 1 designates the one piece wire portion of the device, providing a strap loop 2, an upper horizontal bar 3, side bars 4, a lower horizontally aligned bar structure of sections 5, and the companion side arms 6 integrally depending from the sections and cooperating to provide therebetween a button-receiving loop I and a button-retaining loop 8, the usual means connecting the wire terminals 9 not being illustrated.

A sheet-stock member 20 depends from the upper horizontal bar 3 by means of a rolled-over edge of the member 20, as at 2|, permitting a limited swinging movement of the member 20 within the wire strap loop 2, the member 20 having a substantially flat portion 22, the lower edge 23 of the said portion 22 and the horizontally aligned lower bar sections 5 being adapted for such relative interengagement that, with a strap covered edge 23, the flat portion 22 cannot be swung through the wire strap loop 2, it being arrested upon the face side of the lower aligned bar sections 5. The sheet-stock member 20 is provided with a horizontal aperture 24 extending substantially the width of the wire strap loop 2, the edges of the member 20 at both ends of the aperture 24 being flanged, as at 21, to give rigidity to the member 20 at those places. The lower edge 23 of the flat portion 22 is cut away at both extremities, as at 25, to prevent a binding contact thereof with the thick side hems of a threaded strap S, the intervening portion of said edge 23 being provided with teeth 26, although such teeth may well be omitted, if desired.

In use, the device, in the relative positions of its wire and sheet-stock members I and 20, respectively, as illustrated by the Figure 1, may receive a strap S, about to be threaded therein, by inserting the end of the strap from the rear of the device within the sheet-stock aperture 24;

down over the face of the member 20; under and around the toothed edge 23; and through, from the front of the device, the wire strap loop 2 directly over the lower horizontal aligned bar sections 5 from which the free end of the strap S is permitted to hang down at the rear of the device.

The advantage in the use of the improved slide loop resides in the simplicity with which a readjustment of the device upon a strap may be had by merely swinging the member 20 away from the horizontally aligned lower bar sections 5, thereby releasing the bite of the device upon the strap threaded therein.

I claim:

1. A two-part slide loop comprising a wire member, the wire being formed to provide a rectangular strap loop having upper and lower bar structures and a button loop integrally depending therefrom; and a sheet-stock member within said vn're strap loop and swung upon the said upper wire bar, said sheet-stock member having an aperture therethrough to receive a strap completely threaded within said wire strap loop, a lower edge of the sheet-stock member being adapted to engage the lower bar structure; and teeth with which said lower edge is provided.

2. A two-part slide loop comprising a wire member, the wire being formed to provide a rectangular strap p having upper and lower bar structures and a button loop integrally depending therefrom; and a sheet-stock member within said wire strap loop and swung upon the said upper wire bar, said sheet-stock member having an aperture therethrough to receive a strap completely threaded within said wire strap loop, a lower edge of the sheet-stock member being adapted to engage the lower bar structure.

3. A two-part slide loop comprising a wire member, the wire being formed to provide a rectangular strap loop having upper and lower bar structures and a button loop integrally depending therefrom; and a sheet-stock member within the said wire strap loop and swung upon the said upper wire bar, said sheet-stock member having an aperture therethrough to receive a strap completely threaded within the said wire strap loop, a lower edge of the sheet-stock member being adapted to be disposed adjacent the lower bar structure, whereby the said slide loop is adapted to be fixedly mounted upon a strap by inserting the strap-end from the rear of the device within said aperture; down over the face of the sheet-stock member; under said edge and over the lower bar structure, said strap-covered edge being arrested at the face of said lower bar structure to bind said strap.

GEORGE HENRY ELWEIL. 

